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Gardenstown - by Martin Malone (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Martin Malone & Bryan Angus's Gardenstown offers a vivid evocation of changing seasons in a village, from spring to winter.
- Author(s): Martin Malone
- 56 Pages
- Poetry, European
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About the Book
Martin Malone & Bryan Angus's Gardenstown is a sequence of Malone's remarkable poetry, interspersed with Angus's exquisite linocuts, which capture the essence of the people, places and wildlife in north-east Scotland.
Book Synopsis
Martin Malone & Bryan Angus's Gardenstown offers a vivid evocation of changing seasons in a village, from spring to winter. The book is a sequence of Malone's remarkable poetry, interspersed with Angus's exquisite linocuts, which capture the essence of the people, places and wildlife in north-east Scotland. Here they watch the year pass as, like the tide the seasons come and go.
Review Quotes
An Under Milk Wood reimagined by W. S. Graham on a far northern coast, Martin Malone's remarkable Gardenstown surveys the horizon with a hyper-attuned ear for the seasonal music of what happens. With its vertically stacked houses, the village is confined yet open to the vast panoramas captured by the poet's unwavering gaze. Gardenstown has grasped the passionate transitory and fashioned it into something tough and durable as Aberdeenshire granite.
- David Wheatley
Paying acute sustained attention to something - anything - is becoming a radical act in our 24 hour non-stop culture. Malone and Angus avoid the tautological trap of poem and image together by both granting similar but different, and inventively accurate attention to the environs of Gardenstown. The whole thing is beautifully sustained. By the time I reached the conclusion with its 'musical comedy of eiders', I believed I'd walked the whole route.
- Matthew Caley